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    Chicken Diaries

    My Hens diary, by my DH..lol 1. Wake up hen peck the hen next to me 2. Preen my feathers and hope that I don’t start molting 3. Jump off the roost and grab any tidbits on the floor that the squirrel didn’t get 4. Hope my chicken moma gets up early to let me out of the coop if she doesn’t do...
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    How broody is too broody?

    She is sooo sweet, but watch out! I have 6 banties and they were a year old this past February. 5 out of 6 has went broody this spring. Three of them started all at the same time so I got 9 fertilized eggs and out of that came 6 chicks, then another hen went broody and I got 2 eggs and two...
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    Hen behaving as if she is a Rooster

    I have 6 bantam hens that are 1 year old and just recently 5 of the 6 went broody. I could not snap them out of it so I gave in and got fertilized bantam eggs at a local nursery. Now we have 6 new baby chicks with 4 mother hens and 1 broody hen left sitting on 5 eggs. When I picked up the...
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    Broody on infertile eggs. What next?

    I have been folowing your post looking for some help for a simular situation. I have three broody bantams sitting on unfertilized eggs. They are all very determined to do their duty and I wonder if they will sit past 3 weeks wating for life?
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    ...Lost a bird today---I am sad--I want to know who dun it!!

    SO SORRY!!! I came home today and found a hawk in the garden with one of my girls. My butterscotch a mille fluer bantie is now dead. My other six girls were all in hiding, but came out slowly after I walked around the yard for an hour. Well Butterscoth's eyes were pecked out and all the...
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    Lost my first girl

    SO SORRY!!! I came home today and found a hawk in the garden with one of my girls. My butterscotch a mille fluer bantie is now dead. My other six girls were all in hiding, but came out slowly after I walked around the yard for an hour. Well Butterscoth's eyes were pecked out and all the...
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